The record in plain text — overall score, categories, strengths and risks, momentum, resilience, strategic position, and diagnostics.
Strongest on Economy (54/100) — sharpest risk, economy weakness.
| Category | Score | Key driver |
|---|---|---|
| Economy | 54/100 | Labor Participation |
| Governance | 32/100 | — |
| Quality of Life | 48/100 | — |
| Innovation | 13/100 | — |
| Stability | 48/100 | Violence & Safety |
Derived — composites of sourced indicators. Full audit trail in Data Provenance below.
| Signal | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| National Momentum | +2 | now 48, versus 46 three years ago, across 4 categories |
| Resilience | 46/100 | Pandemic 47 · Banking Crisis 41 · War / Conflict 38 · Natural Disaster 57 |
| Strategic Position | 33/100 | Demographics 55 · Resources 12 · Stability 48 · Education 30 · Technology 13 · Geopolitics 37 |
Uganda scores 39 (weak) overall on NationsHelm's index. Momentum: up 2 points versus three years ago (now 48). Its strongest area is Economy (54/100). The risk drawing attention: Economy weakness.
All 192 tracked indicators — 110 sourced, 82 derived — each with its exact source, series code, and refresh cadence. The complete source-by-source catalog is on the methodology page.
Full catalog →Per-indicator sources are always public on the methodology page — Analyst assembles the complete ledger in context.
Uganda scores 39 out of 100 overall on NationsHelm's index (weak) — the unweighted mean of its sourced category scores. Its strongest area is Economy (54/100) and its weakest is Innovation (13/100).
Uganda's Stability score is 48 out of 100 (weak), blended from World Bank governance indicators, V-Dem and UCDP conflict data.
Uganda's Economy score is 54 out of 100 (weak), derived from World Bank, IMF and ILO indicators.
Uganda's Quality of Life score is 48 out of 100 (weak), covering safety, healthcare, education, basic living conditions, environment and living conditions context from sourced indicators.
Uganda's Governance score is 32 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank governance indicators and V-Dem democracy data.
Uganda's Innovation score is 13 out of 100 (weak), from World Bank connectivity and business indicators, WIPO patent data and the Oxford Insights Government AI Readiness Index.
On NationsHelm's momentum read, Uganda is up 2 points versus three years ago — 48 now, from 46 — across the 4 categories with time-series coverage.
Uganda's defining asset is labor participation, while its sharpest risk is economy weakness — public Spending 10.02% of GDP — the category's weakest input (0/100).
Uganda's Strategic Position score is 33 out of 100 (weak), weighing demographics, resources, stability, education, technology and geopolitics — each component sourced or derived, with unsourced components dropped rather than counted as zero.
On NationsHelm's Opportunity Index, Uganda scores 38 out of 100 for Invest In — one of its three vectors, alongside Start a Business and Emigrate To, with a Resilience score of 46/100. Every input is sourced, so treat it as a starting map, not advice.